root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| On September 14, 2006 9:42 PM you wrote:
| > > 
| > > > > > As far as I can see PLF is defined in Makefile.pamphlet 
| > > but never
| > > > > > used anywhere in the source.
| > > > > > 
| > > > > > I suggest we delete it before somebody tries to use it. We don't
| > > > > > need more flags and special cases in the source if we can avoid
| > > > > > it.
| > 
| > Damn. So I guess it's too late. This stuff is everywhere. ;)
| 
| Yeah, most of those conditionals are what make the C code hard to port.

no harder than the lisp non-portable sutff all over the place in the
Axiom source code.  I don't think we have a perfect language match
here in terms of portability.  I've coded for longtime in C and C++; I
don't think this particular is stuff is handled the proper way.

[...]

| C is the least portable language there is (I know because I had to 
| figure out most of those conditionals). That's one major motivation
| toward rewriting it in lisp.

Please, no.  Lisp does not look more portable than C to me.

-- Gaby


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